Bat (disambiguation)

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A bat is a flying mammal of the Order Chiroptera.

Bat may also refer to:

In sports

Bat, in bat-and-ball games
- Baseball bat
- Cricket bat
- Table tennis racket or bat

As a name or nickname

Bat Masterson (1853–1921), legend of the American Old West
Bat, alternative spelling of Batu, a Mongol-Turkic given name
Bat Khurts, head of the Executive Office of the Mongolian National Security Council and the former leader of Mongolia's Central Spy Agency
Bat Lash, DC Comics character

Computing

Bat (metasyntactic variable), a placeholder name
.bat, file extension for a batch file, a file type that batch executes commands
The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows

Arts and entertainment

Die Fledermaus (The Bat), an 1874 comic operetta by Johann Strauss II
La Chauve-Souris (The Bat), a Russian-French touring revue in the early 1900s
The Bat (play), 1920 Broadway play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
The Bat (1926 film), 1926 silent film based on the play
The Bat (1959 film), 1959 film based on the same play
The Bat (novel), 1997 detective book by Jo Nesbø

Military

Bat (bomber), McDonnell XP-67 Bat experimental jet airplane
Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II
HMS Bat, one of two Royal Navy ships
USS Bat (1864), a steamer captured by the U.S. during the American Civil War
Northrop Grumman Bat, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman

Roller coasters

Bat (Lagoon), a roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Utah, United States
The Bat (Canada's Wonderland), a roller coaster in Ontario
The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1981), a defunct roller coaster at Kings Island in Ohio, United States, that closed in 1983
The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993), an operating roller coaster at Kings Island, previously known as Top Gun and Flight Deck

Other

Bat (goddess), in Egyptian mythology, a deification of the Milky Way
Bat Motor Manufacturing Co., defunct manufacturers of motorcycles and tricars
Bat (heraldry), the image of a bat (animal) used as a heraldic device
bat, ISO 639-2 code for Baltic languages

See also